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This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Some 70 years after they entered widespread chemical...
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If you were to create a recipe for plastics, you’d need a very big cookbook. In addition to fossil fuel-based building blocks like ethylene and...
Feeling guilty about all those blue-and-white plastic Amazon bags piling up around the house? Fear not — they can be recycled! At least, that’s...
A class of chemicals commonly used in plastic food containers and cosmetic products may have caused about 10 percent of the United States’ preterm...
At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious material that can be as small as a...
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Plastic trash produced by the company PepsiCo has...
As plastic production has skyrocketed over the past several decades, wealthy countries have benefited enormously — from increasingly lightweight,...
As petrochemical companies continue to inundate the world with cheap plastic products and packaging — much of which is designed to be used once and...
As plastic litter builds up in the environment, polluting landscapes and poisoning ecosystems, U.S. lawmakers have unveiled their “most...
For years, companies have been trying to offset their greenhouse gas emissions with carbon credits. Now, they want to do the same thing for their...